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Catholic Minute
A Catholic Podcast from Ken and Janelle Yasinski about intentional Catholic living. Explore topics like marriage, parenting, sacraments, Marian devotions and cultural issues. Enhance your faith with daily reflections during Advent and Lent. Together let’s live the Catholic life.
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Episodes
211 episodes
The King Refused to Escape… Then Surrendered
In this episode, we reflect on the life of St. Louis IX, Catholic king and saint, and his extraordinary witness to Christian virtue.During the Crusades, he faced defeat, illness, and captivity—and was given the chance to escape.He...
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Season 3
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Episode 27
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Fasting vs Abstinence: What’s the Difference? (Fr Cristino)
Are you fasting the right way?In this conversation with Fr. Cristino, we unpack the difference between fasting and abstinence—and why many Catholics misunderstand it, especially during Lent.Fasting isn’t just about giving somethin...
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Season 3
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Episode 26
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17:25
Eucharistic Miracle: The Room No One Could Enter
A priest forgot the Blessed Sacrament… and what followed stunned everyone.In this episode, we share a powerful Eucharistic miracle preserved in Catholic tradition—a moment that reveals the reality of Christ’s presence in the Eucharist an...
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Season 3
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Episode 25
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9:33
A Dead Man’s Warning: “There Is a Hell”
A man dies. And hours later… he returns.What follows is one of the most chilling accounts preserved within Catholic tradition—recorded by Mgr. de Ségur and passed on as a warning about the reality of hell, judgment, and the eter...
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Season 3
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Episode 24
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10:01
Buried Alive… One Last Chance to Repent
In this episode, Ken and Janelle share a striking story from Catholic tradition about a woman who publicly mocked the truths of the faith—until she was confronted by the grave.After being declared dead and buried, something unexpected ha...
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Season 3
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Episode 23
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9:02
The Poisoned Cup of St. Benedict
Catholic story from the life of St. Benedict and a famous moment from early Christian monastic history.In this Lent Daily episode we share a striking story from Catholic tradition. During a meal, a cup is placed before St. Benedict — and...
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Season 3
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Episode 22
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8:59
Lent: The Lie That Makes You Quit (Fr Cristino)
In this Lenten conversation, we explore why so many people begin Lent with good intentions but end up giving up their penances, fasting, or spiritual commitments along the way.Why does this happen so often? And what spiritual lie might b...
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Season 3
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Episode 21
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15:39
The Devil’s Contract — St. Basil Confronts a Demonic Claim
In this episode, we share a striking story from Catholic tradition connected to St. Basil the Great, bishop of Caesarea and one of the great Doctors of the Church.A servant desperate to marry his master's daughter turns to an ench...
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Season 3
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Episode 20
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11:20
Confession and Hidden Sin: The Monk Who Fooled Everyone
In this Lent Daily reflection, Ken and Janelle share a sobering story from Catholic tradition about confession, hidden sin, and the danger of deceiving ourselves.A monk known for his holiness dies and is buried by his brothers in the mon...
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Season 3
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Episode 19
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8:52
One Look at Her and the Bishop Collapsed
In this Catholic Lent reflection, we share a powerful story from Catholic tradition about conversion, repentance, and the surprising ways God calls a soul back to Him. This Lenten meditation from early Christian history tells how a bishop, afte...
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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11:06
An 18 Year Old Queen Silenced 50 Philosophers
In the early fourth century, during a time when Christians still faced persecution under Roman authority, a young queen named Catherine stood before the rulers of Alexandria and refused to worship the pagan gods of the empire. When Roman author...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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14:01
An Angel Appeared in Her Prison Cell — It Was the Devil
An angel appeared in her prison cell… offering freedom. But St. Juliana of Nicomedia, a Catholic martyr of the early Church, recognized the deception: the visitor was not an angel at all—it was the devil.This powerful Catholic saint sto...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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14:25
He Laughed at Hell — Then Spoke From It
Two Russian generals mocked the Catholic teaching on Hell and made a pact: whichever died first would return and reveal the truth about the afterlife.One of them kept his word.In this episode, we explore a powerful story from Cath...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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8:21
“I Am Eternally Damned”: A Catholic Warning About Despair
A condemned man refused the Sacrament of Confession before his execution. Thirty days after death, he returned with a terrifying declaration: “I am eternally damned.”In this episode, we examine a sobering account preserved in Ca...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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10:23
She Raised the Dead — Rome Still Killed Her
This Catholic Lenten reflection explores the true story of St. Agnes, a 13-year-old virgin martyr and early Christian saint of the Catholic Church during the Roman persecution of Christians under the Roman Empire. Her miracle, martyrdom, and to...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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9:48
The Humiliation Cure — Why the Devil Fears Your Confession (Fr Cristino)
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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33:03
The Devil's Contract — How Mary Burned a Blood Deal
What happens when a man signs away his soul in blood? In Episode 6 of our Lent Daily series, we explore one of the most terrifying yet hopeful miracles in Church history: The miraculous fall and rise of Saint Theophilus the Penitent.
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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9:43
The Hail Mary That Saved Him from Hell
In this Lenten reflection, we share a powerful Catholic story of repentance, mortal sin, and Marian mercy.One night, a young man was shown hell. His companion was damned — but through a few Hail Marys to the Blessed Virgin Mary, he was s...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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9:18
The Holy Cross Turned Her Away (St Mary of Egypt)
Lent calls us to the Holy Cross — but can mortal sin block our return?St. Mary of Egypt’s dramatic conversion reveals how repentance restores us to grace and opens the way back to Holy Communion.
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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10:51
St. Lucy Defied Rome for the Eucharist
St. Lucy of Syracuse lived in 3rd-century Sicily during the Roman persecutions of Christians. When ordered to sacrifice to pagan gods, she refused. Ancient Christian tradition recounts that soldiers attempted to drag her away, yet she stood unm...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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13:12
Jesus Entered the Desert — Will You This Lent? (Fr. Cristino)
This video explains the purpose of Lent in the Catholic Church, including Catholic teaching on the 40 days in the desert, Lent fasting rules, abstinence from meat, prayer during Lent, penance, and preparation for Easter.
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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19:45
The Devil Came Before His Execution
This Catholic Lent reflection shares a powerful true story of a condemned prisoner who faced the Devil on the night before his execution. In this 1700s Catholic account, Satan demands that he renounce Jesus Christ, the Sacraments, and the Virgi...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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10:52
Ash Wednesday Warning “I Am in Hell!” – A True Story
Ash Wednesday begins the Catholic season of Lent — a time when the Church calls us to remember death, judgment, and eternity. In this true Catholic account from Naples in 1707, St. Francis of Jerome warns a woman who mocked the reality of hell....
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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6:58
Lourdes: What Heaven Asked For (Ken and Janelle)
Happy Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes.Did you know Pope Pius XII was the only pope to write an encyclical on a Marian apparition — and on what Heaven asked for at Lourdes?Today, we (Ken & Janelle) walk through some of the ...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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18:15
Purity Struggles? Angelic Warfare (Fr Penna)
This is the second conversation with Fr Penna on this topic. Angelic Warfare Confraternity, a powerful devotion rooted in the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas and entrusted to the care of the Blessed Virgin Mary.These prayers address ever...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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27:27